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Originally, the Sunset Park Chinatown was a small satellite of Manhattan's Western Cantonese Chinatown, but since the 2000s, Cantonese speakers in Brooklyn have been largely shifting to and concentrating in Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay/Homecrest while the Sunset Park Chinatown has largely grown into being a very large Fuzhou speaking enclave.
Map of Washington, D.C., with Chinatown highlighted in yellow. Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown is a small, historic area of Downtown Washington, D.C. along H and I Streets between 5th and 8th Streets, Northwest.
There are multiple Chinatowns in the borough of Queens in New York City.The original Queens Chinatown emerged in Flushing, initially as a satellite of the original Manhattan Chinatown, before evolving its own identity, surpassing in scale the original Manhattan Chinatown, [1] and subsequently, in turn, spawning its own satellite Chinatowns in Elmhurst, Corona, and eastern Queens.
Chinatown in Denver, Colorado, was a neighborhood on Wazee Street in what is now the "LoDo section of the city...." [40] The first recorded Chinese person was of a man from southern China named "John" dated June 29, 1869, as documented by the Colorado Tribune. [41] It was also referred to as "Hop Alley", but was torn apart by riots in the 1880s ...
Doyers Street depicted in an 1898 postcard The city's first Chinese Opera House was on Doyers Street. Doyers Street is a 200-foot-long (61 m) street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
The platform walls also feature the names "Canal Street" and "Chinatown" in Chinese (Chinese: 堅尼街華埠; pinyin: Jiān ní jiē huá bù). The station has an art installation entitled Empress Voyage February 22, 1794 by Bing Lee, installed in 1998 as part of the MTA Arts & Design program.
Philadelphia Chinatown is a predominantly Asian American neighborhood in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation supports the area. The neighborhood stretches from Vine Street on the north, Arch Street on the south, North Franklin Street and N. 7th Street on the east, to North Broad Street on ...
Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants, shops, and art galleries, but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income, aging population of about 7,800 residents.